TT Riders ride their bikes hard and fast, anyone outside of this small number of riders who race under the auspieces of the A.C.U. on road circuits lives in a fantasy world if they believe they can ride 'hard and fast' on the national highway. Open roads cannot be negotiated at race speed full stop and if either of these persons had bothered to research advanced riding techniques, both neccessary and also neccessarily different to each other to reduce the risks of both types of riding, maybe they might have learned something positive and possibly still be alive today.

"Well, if he couldn't successfully avoid a wall & then a tree, I'd say he'd have been hard pressed to have been any good as a Motocross rider .."

Indeed..

"I am confused. How does such a thing happen?"

Me too, but it seems to happen a lot, to some people.

"...if either of these persons had bothered to research advanced riding techniques, both neccessary and also neccessarily different to each other to reduce the risks of both types of riding, maybe they might have learned something positive and possibly still be alive today."